While originally intended as a Red Sonja story, it was reworked to introduce the new character due to a rights issue related to the 1985 Brigitte Nielsen and Arnold Schwarzenegger film based on the property.

Originally published under Marvel Comics' Epic imprint, the fantasy series centred around adventures of the titular descendant of Caesar across the Roman Empire.

"I look through these pages and I'm reminded, most eloquently, just how gifted John Bolton is as an artist, how breathtakingly skilled he is at evoking character and event, how powerfully and also subtly he can present a scene," said Claremont.

Claremont is best known for his long run on Uncanny X-Men, in which he established many of the series's best known characters and storylines.